#cybersecurity culture

[drnic1]

Beyond Change Healthcare

The continued onslaught of cybersecurity attacks which if anything are only getting worse have impacted the healthcare system in dramatic fashion with the payment network brought down by the attack on Change Healthcare. Healthcare under Cyber Attack I keep hoping that we all get better at combatting these attempts to breach our data and that overall vigilance rises as we become more wary of…

[holmoris]

PSA : DO NOT CLICK GAME INVITES IN STEAM CHAT

Category 5 happening in the whitehat sector today.

There's an unpatched remote code vuln in Steam Chat's game invite system, and it's been there for 5+ years after being responsibly disclosed to valve in 2019. (credit to floesen_ on secret.club for finding and disclosing it to valve)

Valve has been dragging its feet and pretending this doesn't exist, but meanwhile someone else discovered it and is using it to actively screw with streamers and pros. It's unknown if the exploit can get admin or not but the article reporting makes it sound like it can and I really can't summarize it better than saying holy shit this is REALLY bad don't click steam invites.

[indigo-skies2315]

@ao3org sending positive vibes in these trying times

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[deafmusictheory]

[bobcat-pie]

I was thinking about stuff I could do on my computer if I was ever without wifi. Obviously, I've got my music, and my pirated copy of Godzilla Vs. Biollante, but I figured I'd probably have some random PDFs laying around too.

some notable ones i've found:

a legally obtained copy of V for Vendetta

Pennsylvania micromobility fact sheet

Several academic papers on anthropomorphism in autism (it was for a V for Vendetta essay)

Lebanese restaurant menu

a Farcille fancomic

Hydrothermal vents fact sheet

Historical Common Names of Great Plains Plants, with Scientific Names by Elaine Nowick (i dont remember why when or how i got this)

Imperial Japan's Human Experiments Before And During World War Two by Alan Vanderbrook (...i have even less of an idea than the last one why i would have this)

a completely blank page with the name "sex_pressure"

map of the famous donut trail

a review of The Etruscan World (???? I have beef with the etruscans and i hate reading book reviews. why do i have this)

Baby Ben® alarm clock manual (i do not own a Baby Ben alarm clock)

an article on that famous self-administered electric shocks experiment

sewing pattern for a cape

Redevelopment potential of landfills. A case study of six New Jersey projects by J.B. Wiley, III& B, Asadi

letter in which the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency reads Sherwin-Williams for filth

The ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GODZILLA by Ed Godziszewski

GOOD AND CHEAP, a budget cookbook by Leanne Brown

local creek water quality survey (it was bad)

The temperature of Europa’s subsurface water ocean by H.J. Melosh, A.G. Ekholm, A.P. Showman, and R.D. Lorenz (it's surprising!)

Walk-thru Metal Detector Medical Exception Form

Trump indictment

Skin donation fact sheet

list of inorganic and organic lead compounds

Second hydrothermal vent fact sheet

a Tennessee man very earnestly trying to convince northerners not to freak out when trees have lichen on them

Triumphal Chariots of Antimony by Basil Valentine

The Lore of Ships (awww, I remember this! a guy sent me this when I mentioned I was anxious about roleplaying a captain!)

GUIDE FOR THE CARE AND USE OF LABORATORY ANIMALS: Eighth Edition (wow we're getting far back, I think I downloaded that for my Horseshoe Crab Essay in... junior? senior year?)

Mitigation Options for Accidental Releases of Hazardous Gases by Vasilis M. Fthenakis

On the Modeling of Snowflake Growth Using Hexagonal Automata by Jessica Li

salt crystal growth experiment

Plants used for the Production of Stimulants by Jenő Bernáth

Wild berry identification fact sheet

postoperative opioid prescribing guidelines

Guidance for the Selection of Laboratory Coats

A BRIEF HISTORY OF FLYING CLOTHING by Dr. Graham Rood

3MTM Respirators for Professional Mold Remediators fact sheet

Medicinal Lichens: The Final Frontier by Brian Kie Weissbuch

welp. i highly recommend looking through your PDFs for a walk down memory lane!

[jamaicahomescom]

Jamaica: A Tribute to the Past and Present, and Advice for Those Returning Home

The announcement of the Bob Marley film sparked excitement within me. Bob Marley, a national icon not only for Jamaicans but for the world, transcended borders with his music. His songs carried the essence of Jamaica wherever they played, providing a sense of home to many. For those who left Jamaica in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s, his music brought a piece of Jamaica to community gatherings, parties,…

[signode-blog]

Understanding Insider Trading: Unveiling the Wall Street Secrets

Introduction to Insider Trading Welcome to the world of finance, where markets operate on the principles of trust, transparency, and fair play. However, lurking in the shadows of this financial landscape is a practice that challenges the very foundations of these principles: insider trading. Let us embark on a journey to demystify insider trading, a phenomenon that has captured the attention of…

[krisrampersad]

Abused by a moody & angry AI on World Folklore Day! Taking on the Tech Giants!

AI and the Clash of Traditions and Technologies n World Folklore Day Dr Kris Rampersad confronts the tech giants

When is Open AI not Open-minded AI.? As I head to the 19th Internet Governance Forum hosted by the Caribbean Telecommunications Union (see more below) , I am greeted by Bing, the Microsoft search engine, announcing it is World Folklore Day, only to be abused by an angry AI! You would be surprised – or would you? – to see the end when Bing’s AI angrily, yes angrily, terminated the conversation…

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Wellness surveillance makes workers unwell

I'm on tour with my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me in TORONTO on Mar 22, then with LAURA POITRAS in NYC on Mar 24, then Anaheim, and more!

"National conversation" sounds like one of those meaningless buzzphrases – until you live through one. The first one I really participated in actively was the national conversation – the global conversation – about privacy following the Snowden revelations.

This all went down when my daughter was five, and as my wife and I talked about the news, our kid naturally grew curious about it. I had to literally "explain like I'm five" global mass surveillance:

https://locusmag.com/2014/05/cory-doctorow-how-to-talk-to-your-children-about-mass-surveillance/

But parenting is a two-way street, so even as I was explaining surveillance to my kid, my own experiences raising a child changed how I thought about surveillance. Obviously I knew about many of the harms that surveillance brings, but parenting helped me viscerally appreciate one of the least-discussed, most important aspects of being watched: how it compromises being your authentic self:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2014/may/09/cybersecurity-begins-with-integrity-not-surveillance

As I wrote then:

There are times when she is working right at the limits of her abilities – drawing or dancing or writing or singing or building – and she catches me watching her and gets this look of mingled embarrassment and exasperation, and then she changes back to some task where she has more mastery. No one – not even a small child – likes to look foolish in front of other people.

Learning, growth, and fulfillment all require a zone of privacy, a time and place where we are not observed. Far from making us accountable, continuous, fine-grained surveillance by authority figures just scares us into living a cramped, inauthentic version of ourselves, where growth is all but impossible. Others have observed the role this plays in right-wing culture war bullshit: "an armed society is a polite society" is code for "people who make me feel uncomfortable just by existing should be terrorized into hiding their authentic selves from me." The point of Don't Say Gay laws and anti-trans bills isn't to eliminate gender nonconformity – it's to drive it into hiding.

Given all this, it's no surprise that workers who face workplace surveillance in the name of "wellness" feel unwell as a result:

https://www.ifow.org/publications/what-impact-does-exposure-to-workplace-technologies-have-on-workers-quality-of-life-briefing-paper

As the Future of Work Institute found in its study, some technologies – systems that make it easier to collaborate and communicate with colleagues – increase workers' sense of wellbeing. But wearables and AI tools make workers feel significantly worse:

https://assets-global.website-files.com/64d5f73a7fc5e8a240310c4d/65eef23e188fb988d1f19e58_Tech%20Exposure%20and%20Worker%20Wellbeing%20-%20Full%20WP%20-%20Final.pdf

Workers who reported these negative feelings confirmed that these tools make them feel "monitored." I mean, of course they do. Even where these tools are nominally designed to help you do your job better, they're also explicitly designed to help your boss keep track of you from moment to moment. As Brandon Vigliarolo writes for The Register, these are the same bosses who have been boasting to their investors about their plans to fire their workers and replace them with AI:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/14/advanced_workplace_tech_study/

"Bossware" is a key example of the shitty rainbow of "disciplinary technology," tools that exist to take away human agency by making it easier to surveil and control its users:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/01/bossware/#bossware

Bossware is one of the stages of the Shitty Technology Adoption Curve: the process by which abusive and immiserating technologies progress up the privilege gradient as their proponents refine and normalize dystopian technologies in order to impose them on wider and wider audiences:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/24/gwb-rumsfeld-monsters/#bossware

The kinds of metrics that bossware gathers might be useful to workers, but only if the workers get to decide when, whether and how to share that data with other people. Microsoft Office helps you catch typos by underlining words its dictionary doesn't recognize; the cloud-based, "AI-powered" Office365 tells your boss that you're the 11th-worst speller in your division and uses "sentiment analysis" to predict whether you are likely to cause trouble:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/21/great-taylors-ghost/#solidarity-or-bust

Two hundred years ago, Luddites rose up against machines. Contrary to the ahistorical libel you've heard, the Luddites weren't angry or frightened of machines – they were angry at the machines' owners. They understood – correctly – that the purpose of a machine "so easy a child could use it" was to fire skilled adult workers and replace them with kidnapped, indentured Napoleonic War orphans who could be maimed and killed on the job without consequence:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/12/gig-work-is-the-opposite-of-steampunk/

A hundred years ago, the "Taylorites" picked up where those mill owners left off: choreographing workers' movements to the finest degree in a pseudoscientific effort to produce a kind of kabuki of boss-pleasing robotic efficiency. The new, AI-based Taylorism goes even further, allowing bosses to automatically blacklist gig workers who refuse to cross picket-lines, monitor "self-employed" call center operators in their own homes, and monitor the eyeballs of Amazon drivers:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/12/algorithmic-wage-discrimination/#fishers-of-men

AI-based monitoring technologies dock workers' wages, suspend them, and even fire them, and when workers object, they're stuck arguing with a chatbot that is the apotheosis of Computer Says No:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/11/robots-stole-my-jerb/#computer-says-no

There's plenty of research about AI successfully "augmenting" workers, making them more productive and I'm the last person to say that automation can't help you get more done:

https://www.ibm.com/thought-leadership/institute-business-value/en-us/report/augmented-workforce

But without understanding how AI augments class warfare – disciplining workers with a scale, speed and granularity beyond the sadistic fantasies of even the most micromanaging asshole boss – this research is meaningless.

The irony of bosses imposing monitoring to improve "wellness" and stave off "burnout" is that nothing is more exhausting, more immiserating, more infuriating than being continuously watched and judged.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/15/wellness-taylorism/#sick-of-spying

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[trolagygirl2022]

⋆♱✮☽ astrology and education ☽✮♰⋆

🗡 having issues with picking your major? or just interested to see which major/job would suit you? astrology can help!

🗡 the planet we'd have to look at is jupiter! jupiter represents higher education! you can also look into your 9th house or jupiter aspects with other planets.

🗡this post will go over jupiter placements and list out possible majors suited for you!

🗡jupiter 1st house: cosmetology, fashion designs, dermatology, design, craniology. (The first house is also represented by the skull or head!).

🗡jupiter 2nd house: business, agribusiness, dietetics, agriculture, music theory, vocal, any music major (music business, composition, jazz studies, etc.), visual arts.

🗡jupiter 3rd house: communications, media research, advertising, education, journalism, creative writing.

🗡jupiter 4th house: child development, geology, environmental science, architecture, genealogy, biology,

🗡jupiter 5th house: film, theatre, dance, art history, reproductive biology, sculpting, interior design.

🗡jupiter 6th house: nursing, sports management, sports science, kinesiology, health and exercise science, public health, physical therapy, healthcare administration, animal science, forensic science.

🗡jupiter 7th house: romance studies, law and legal studies, business law, political science, (because the 7th house can also be about connections and contracts!! Also Libra rules the 7th house and Libra represents Justice).

🗡jupiter 8th house: thanatology, master of psychotherapy and spirituality, finance, business administration, mortuary science.

🗡jupiter 9th house: tourism, international relations, international business, theology and religious studies, english (or any other languages), physics, astronomy, computer science, foreign policy, history, cultural anthropology, philosophy.

🗡jupiter 10th house: entrepreneurship, sales, marketing, public relations, entrepreneurial studies, economics, public administration.

🗡jupiter 11th house: computer engineering, electrical engineering, cybersecurity, information systems, sociology, social work, humanities, human services.

🗡jupiter 12th house: affective science, neuroscience, psychopathology, psychology, counseling/therapy, pharmaceutical sciences.

[cyberstudious]

Books for Learning Cybersecurity

I created this post for the Studyblr Masterpost Jam, check out the tag for more cool masterposts from folks in the studyblr community!

I'll admit that I've mostly used online resources and courses so far, but these are the handful of books that I've read and recommend!

Books About Cybersecurity History

The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll: the story of how one man noticed an odd error in a computer at UC Berkely and traced it back to an international hacking scheme. a very fun & interesting read.

Cult of the Dead Cow by Joseph Menn: a look into hacker culture and how few people took computer security seriously at the beginning, and an exploration of how cybersecurity often becomes deeply and uncomfortably intertwined with geopolitics.

Books to Learn Cybersecurity

Practical Malware Analysis by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig: an oldie but a goodie for getting into malware analysis. I'm currently in the middle of working through this one and having a great time.

Serious Cryptography by Jean-Philippe Aumasson: a detailed guide for understanding the nuts and bolts of cryptography (the 2nd edition is coming out this month, so it might be worth checking out the newer version).

Cybersecurity Foundations Textbooks

Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach (7th edition) by Kurose & Ross: this was the textbook we used in the computer networks class I took in college - I think this book does a good job of explaining how the internet works and breaking concepts down to the lowest level.

Operating System Concepts (10th edition) by Silberschatz, Galvin, and Gagne: this is the textbook from my operating systems course. This is a good book to go through if you want to learn how a computer Really Works.

Books I Haven't Read (Yet) - But I Know They'll Be Good

Cybersecurity Books from No Starch Press - many books have free chapters posted here that you can read as a preview!

Books by Bruce Schneier - books on society, technology, and cryptography

[takes1]

For a request, would you be interested in a bully Dabi x male reader (maybe in a college AU or something. You can decide if you want it to be in the LOV instead)? Reader is constantly picked on and demeaned by him, but one day maybe in a private area reader is cornered, some suggestive content goes on/maybe noncon depending what you want to do, and the reader speaks up when the situation almost goes too far (and normally he is quiet. He’s that nerdy kid afraid to disappoint his parents/and a virgin. So he is scared of what was going on in that scenario.) After, you can decide what goes on from there!

Also to add, my bad about asking make characters. I did read the rules but had no idea what afab of amab means, should of looked it up before asking lol 😂

you're okay! no worries :) i really liked writing this, it's very different from my other stuff. i'm so sorry this has taken so long! will write a part 2 soon and probably end it there!

warnings. barely sfw, slight noncon themes, creepy vibes

details. male!reader / college au / frat au / inexperienced!reader / loser!reader / corruptionkink!dabi / loser!reader / degradation / praise / power play / slight noncon / yandere!dabi / 1.2k words

🤍 scenario series. more dabi and others here.

more links. my ao3 / dabi headcanons / requests open

"No, mom--,"

You almost tripped over your untied shoelace for the third time in the past two minutes but continued to ignore it. Stopping to fix it was scarier than getting a face full of dirty cement.

"No, it's-, okay, uppercase L, did you try the uppercase L yet?"

A rush of adrenaline plumped your veins for a fleeting moment and you gripped your cracked phone like a lifeline. The sound of shoes other than your beat-up Vans scraped across the sidewalk. You turned and there was nothing but the drip of residual rain from gutters, and some trash brushing by a garbage can.

Of course, a Mcdonald's wrapper would be responsible for your fatal heart attack. Or your mother, who didn't understand how to capitalize a letter on her keyboard to enter her bank password.

There was another half mile to your dorm building. When she called you halfway through your journey back from your last late class, you were relieved to have something else on your mind other than the threat of seeing a Brother around.

Pledge Week was Hell. Actual Hell. This must've been your divine punishment for being such a giant fucking loser your entire life-- a cruel joke from God designed to say, 'Look at this dumbass! He's paying hundreds of dollars to get hazed for a week, then ostracized for the smallest hope of feeling like he's a part of something!'

"It's the left side, mom. It says shift on it," You sighed.

This was the first week you hadn't commuted home for the weekend. With no social skills to bank on, there was nothing to do on the weekends except drive two hours home. At least you could be comfortable there. Not necessarily wanted, until they had a technology issue that required a Cybersecurity major -or just any person with brain cells- to fix, but you had your own quiet room.

It didn't change the fact that the Brothers of Alpha Sigma Phi betted on you to join them as a joke. You didn't have any connections or lineage like the other Pledges, but it was funny to pick the scrawny kid and see how long he'd last.

You didn't know how you lasted this long. It was a sort of tolerance that you built up, because Alpha Sig gave you something to do, somewhere to be.

A semester as a Pledge; running errands, attending parties but not allowed to drink, getting shit on at every turn because that was just the culture here and you thought, maybe after you graduate to become a Brother in a couple of days, you would have some real friends.

Another thudding sound of footsteps much heavier than yours. This time, they didn't stop, and neither did you.

The orange glow of streetlamps every 15 feet became markers for your sanity. Only nine more to go before you were at your building.

Your stomach was in your throat. The hand in your pocket clutched your knife.

"You got it?" Your voice was uneven but your mother didn't notice. You wished she would stay on the phone longer, but there was nothing else to talk about.

Even the other seven Pledges didn't associate with you. If they did, they got screwed with more. This week had become a sick kind of lonely, fast.

It was like clockwork. As soon as your phone left your ear, a voice much closer than you anticipated shocked your muscles still.

"Hey, Pledge," It was by far the worst Brother imaginable; the one who seemed to take personal pleasure in your torment above anyone else, "The fuck do ya think you're talkin' to?"

You kept your hand in your pocket. Pulling a knife on him would erase all progress, possibly even make this whole semester's worth of work useless, but you weren't about to surrender your only line of defense when you weren't sure if it would get violent.

Dabi was deceptively glittery under the streetlamp. His piercings gave you something else to look at to avoid eye contact.

"My mom--," You could barely get your words out.

"You're not supposed to speak to anyone this week," He lowered his voice and approached slow because he knew you wouldn't move.

Narrowed eyes watched another student on the other side of the deserted street.

Two years ago, Alpha Sig had been under an investigation for hazing (rightfully so, you could imagine), so the older Brothers were careful about what they said and did in public. In private, everything was still on the table.

So far, the worst thing you were forced to do was the bottling line. This was an activity where they made you and the other Pledges stand in a line to drink an entire bottle of various combined liquors. Each of you had to drink a fair amount, or the last man had to drink whatever was left. You were the last man.

This was already after a knowledge test about the fraternity. If a Pledge got a question wrong about the history of Alpha Sig, he was forced to drink.

Eventually, they made you drink whenever somebody else got a question wrong because you were answering everything correctly.

You had never thrown up so violently at the end of one night before. You weren't sure how you made it back to your dorm, but you woke up at 3 in the afternoon the next morning and didn't bother going to the rest of your classes.

"That includes calling your mommy," Dabi mocked, close enough to be in striking distance.

Every Pledge knew to stay far away from this crazy bastard. He was joked to be so masochistic that he was the one responsible for the investigation in the first place.

But he sought you out so much you had almost seen him every day this week. Enough to count every piercing on his face, wonder what each of his tattoos meant and why he had so many.

He took a glance down to your hand.

"Whaddya got a hard-on or something?"

You shot your hand out of your pocket, knife-less, defenseless, and embarrassed, sparking a smirk across his face.

Your dick was not hard right now, but it wasn't opposed to getting off at the thought of Dabi's big hands, among other things.

It was worth wondering if they could all tell. You weren't flamboyant, but you supposed that not being straight wasn't their only reason to shun you.

You wondered if they knew about Dabi's equality tattoo, a small but mighty symbol under his arm that you managed to get a glimpse of at one party after staring at him too long. He made you his personal servant many times for that problem throughout the semester.

It gave you the chance to pick up on things that weren't so traditional about him.

In truth, it only made your staring worse because you were certain he was more similar to you than anyone would care to think.

He closed the distance between you and sized you up while you put your hands behind your back. You couldn't believe you had forgotten to until now; that was what your class was supposed to do when a Brother called on them.

Dabi's breath was warm and minty on the side of your face when he muttered, "You're gonna show me your dorm, Pledge."

A big, strong hand shoved you hard. Back into the direction you had been walking. There was not much you could do now, other than shakily guide him back to the one place you felt safe.

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[harley-style]

vbs housemate headcanons

vbs if they lived in the same house together:

they buy this apartment with two bedrooms and large living room with an open kitchen and a single bathroom. it also has a tiny studio for them to record in. the rent is atrociously expensive, given how big it is.

dont worry they can cover it -- bc theyve somehow managed to become nationwide sensations who are reviving the culture of street music.

akitoya share a room, and so do anhane, but this doesnt matter much because they'll all pile up in a single room one way or another.

or if they come home exhausted, theyll go searching for anyone already home and cuddle them. the next two who come home share the other room for the night

in some cases, a third member will wander over to the other room and squeeze in with them.

the fourth person (usually akito) will try to sleep alone in the other room, but they'll feel lonely so they end up piling with the rest of vbs

when akito gets home late, he first drapes a blanket on the others, if he catches them sleeping. almost most of the time, he gets snatched (by an or toya) to the cuddle pile

an commands the kitchen a lot, and she'll teach toya how to cook on saturdays

kohane decorates their place with pictures ofc

they have a record player in the living room. akito makes it a point to collect a lot of vinyl

anhane's room is a fucking mess

akitoya's room is surprisingly neat

akito and an motherhen the shit out of vbs.

count pearl was let loose ONCE in their apartment. akito surprisingly likes her, toya and an stay FAR away.

they get a cute guinea pig to take care of. toya and kohane like spoiling it the most, but Hammy (the guinea pig's name) likes An the most

sometimes birds will follow toya home. cats will follow akito. kohane has SO MANY pictures of them that she and an squeal over

a lot of fans have tried to dox them, so akito has rui and mizuki cybersecure the shit out of their house. there was almost a machine gun installed

toya gets separate phones so the vocaloids can pop in without having to use their own phones, because at one point vbs were all in meetings via call when len and rin showed up to the panic and confusion of vbs and others

[errorid-mt7lt7k7unfr9ttfua5]

shabbat shalom, jumblr, i have a heavy question:

due to many factors, i have decided to leave the United States once it becomes feasible, and i want some suggestions on safe places. ultimately, nowhere will be completely safe, but ideally somewhere with either low*er* rates of antisemitic violence, robust legal protection of jews specifically, low rates of violence in general, and ease of migration. (also, preferably a decently sized jewish population)

i am going into cybersecurity and speak english, spanish, french, ASL, and japanese; and am currently learning german, hebrew, and mandarin

my research is going fairly poorly due to a lack of recent (post-october 7th) studies beyond anecdotes.

my thoughts and research so far:

germany

*more* robust legal protections against antisemitism than other countries

excellent quality of life and cost of living

potential mobility to other European Union countries in the event i must flee again

i speak several European languages, which will make travel (which i want to do extensively) easier

japan

difficult to migrate to

excellent quality of life and cost of living

extensive overworking

i speak japanese

very low rates of violence, and while there are definitely antisemitic sentiments and a history of such; there are Very few jews anywhere in japan, they are primarily located in tōkyo and ōsaka, and the worst incident i have found to have happened recently was vandalisation of several copies of the diary of anne frank in a public library, and that was prior to october 7th

rampant discrimination against non-japanese individuals, especially in employment and housing

Canada

america lite™ my beloathed

proximity to where i live now, which would allow me to see my partner more frequently

i speak english, french, and ASL

lower potentiality for culture shock

i want to do more research, but I want advice from jumblr, especially from Jews who live outside the united states.

i specifically want to avoid the levant given how unsafe it is at the moment

if there are any jews who live in latin america, please let me know if there are safe places, as spanish is the language i am most fluent in besides english

[astercontrol]

What are you feelings on TRON 2.0? Given how 82' adjacent it is in tone.

I like it a whole lot!

I mean, I've never been a gamer-- never had the reflexes for it, and always been too focused on other forms of fiction to ever really try-- and I admit this does hamper my ability to fully appreciate much of the Tron franchise.

But I did watch a very long playthrough video of 2.0 and I LOVE almost everything about it. The setting is sooo pretty, and feels practically perfect as an extension of what we saw of the Encom system in '82.

I like how the programs act. There's some cheesy program dialogue that echoes the feel of '82 in a delightful way (I think one character says to another, "you'd lose your header if it wasn't compiled on!")... it all fits pretty beautifully into how I imagine programs living in that system.

I guess part of why I like 82 better than Legacy or Uprising is that I feel the programs on Flynn's Grid were made to mimic a human-like life-- to live as if their motivations evolved from the same biological instincts that human feelings do.

And, while it makes sense that Flynn would have made their world in that way-- I'm really more interested to see a world that spontaneously formed for programs. The sort of world in which they act in ways where you can tell it comes from program motivations, and the influence of human life and culture is mostly a vague echo.

Sure, there are things about 2.0 I don't like. The storyline of the human characters feels like the weakest element to me. The dead-mom/semi-estranged-dad motif that they ended up recycling in Legacy... not my thing, to be honest. The human villains also don't really speak to me.

And of course I wish they'd actually included some of the Program characters we loved from '82. And there were a few things I'm not sure I liked about what they did with the program characters they had.

For instance, what exactly is going on when Jet gets constantly chased by antivirus programs and spam filters that think he's a threat, and he's just constantly massacring them in self-defense? Do they rerezz later? Or are they dead forever, and if so, does this sudden devastating hit to Encom's whole cybersecurity system actually have any consequences? because it should?

...And yet, the whole feel of how this goes down? still really speaks to me, in both a computer way and a weird-human way.

You're a program living in this world, and your job is to open a door if someone with the right permissions asks you to open the door. Do you care if you just saw that person murder 50 of your coworkers with a deadly frisbee? No, you do not care. That is not your business. You have one job, and it is Open Door.

Idk. The 2.0 programs just feel real to me in the right way.